Rape Crisis group backs MEPs' call to ban porn

The Rape Crisis Network has backed a proposal by Dutch MEPs to ban all forms of pornography, which would include internet porn.

It emerged yesterday that Kartika Liotard, an MEP linked with the Confederal Group of the European United Left, has tabled a proposal demanding “statutory measures to prevent any form of pornography in the media and in advertising, and for a ban on advertising for pornographic products and sex tourism”, with the scope of any ban to include the “digital field”.

It comes as Icelandic politicians began debating a possible pornography ban in that country and as a recent study here indicated that children are viewing pornography at a much younger age than before.